Sticky notes, now on Steam

Valve is testing out some new options for its PC storefront and sport consumer Steam, and there’s some cool options in there. Alongside some under-the-hood modifications, the newest Steam Desktop Shopper beta provides a handy-dandy Notes app.

The Notes app will allow you to jot down details about no matter you’re presently enjoying. Through Valve’s weblog concerning the function, the Notes will enable for wealthy textual content formatting, a number of notes per sport, and can be utilized offline. They’ll even be saved per sport and synced throughout to some other PCs you log into.

That alone sounds good, if not all too completely different from utilizing the Notepad app in your desktop. The facet that places it over for me is the flexibility to pin home windows into the overlay, to allow them to seem in-game. With adjustable opacity ranges and hidden UI choices, it will let gamers pin guides, discussions, or Notes whereas they play. You may even pin the online browser, if you wish to play video games and watch Household Man such as you’re on TikTok.

This performance appears actually wonderful, particularly for individuals who don’t have twin displays. There are some video games the place I already take down paper notes whereas I play; stuff like Return of the Obra Dinn or Disco Elysium. I doubt I’d put off that for extra difficult video games the place I’d want some quantity of bodily note-taking house and freedom. However for fast check-list gadgets, or remembering one thing like synergies in Vampire Survivors, this function appears nice.

Pumping up the Steam

This Steam consumer beta additionally features a refreshed screenshot supervisor, which has extra thumbnail choices and managing each on-line and native screenshots.

With some additional updates below the hood, meant to implement modifications quicker, it looks as if Steam’s bought some neat options headed down the pipeline. On the very least, my behavior of watching YouTube video essays whereas enjoying Slay the Spire simply bought a handy quality-of-life replace.